Vivo, Oppo’s new flagship smartphones look like the iPhone X but at a third of the price
The identical-looking iPhone X features on the new handsets from Vivo and Oppo have emerged amid efforts by Huawei, China’s largest smartphone brand, to shed the copycat image of mainland mobile phone makers
Wait, is that a red iPhone X?
The latest smartphones released in China may prompt people to do a double take, wondering whether new colours for Apple’s iPhone X have surfaced.
Chinese smartphone suppliers Vivo and Oppo have separately introduced their new flagship Android smartphone models, each of which feature a notch at the top of the touch screen identical to the prominent design cue on the tenth anniversary iPhone.
Prices for Vivo’s X21 and Oppo’s R15 start at 2,898 yuan (US$457) and 2,999 yuan, respectively. Each model costs around a third of what an iPhone X sells for, which is from 8,388 yuan.
The new products from Vivo and Oppo – companies owned by privately held BBK Electronics based in the southern coastal port city of Guangzhou, northwest of Hong Kong – show how the Chinese makers of low-priced Android smartphones continue to follow the design of more expensive devices from the likes of Apple and Samsung Electronics.